COPYRIGHT AND CREATIVITY THE MAKING OF PROPERTY RIGHTS IN CREATIVE WORKSPDF电子书下载

1.Copyright as property 1

Ⅰ The legal concept of dematerialised property 1

1 The meanings of the term ‘property’ 3

2 The concept of ‘property right’ 5

3 The concept of ‘property object’ or ‘thing’ or ‘res’ in law 10

Ⅱ Copyright as a primary example of dematerialised property 12

1 The application of the concept of dematerialised property to copyright 13

2 The proprietarian Common law conception of copyright： protection against parasitical unfair competition and free-ride 35

3 The less proprietarian Civil law conception of author’s rights (droits d’auteur)： protection of a person’s creation through personality protection 47

Ⅲ Conclusion 60

2.Copyright-property and the public domain： explanations and justifications 68

Ⅰ Historical-philosophical and economic explanations of property and copyright-property and their limited usefulness for modern copyright law 68

1 Explanations and justifications of property and copyright deriving from classical political philosophy 70

2 Economic explanations and justifications of property and copyright 91

Ⅱ A test of political-philosophical concepts： the idea of the public domain as a default position and starting point 97

1 Constructions of the ‘public domain’ 97

2 Another construction of the ‘public domain’ 109

3 A Kantian approach to the enforceability of viral contracts in the cyberspace 114

Ⅲ Conclusion： the value of philosophical justifications for modern copyright law and for the understanding of the public domain 118

3.The limitations to the powers of copyright ownership 123

Ⅰ Limitations as to conceptual extent 123

1 The idea-expression dichotomy 125

2 Copyright exceptions and limitations： restricted real rights in copyright？ 137

Ⅱ Limitations as to time： term of protection 144

Ⅲ Conclusion 148

4.The attribution and allocation of copyright-property： authorship， creativity and ownership 149

Ⅰ ‘L’auteur est mort， vive le proprietaire！’ 149

1 The concept of the ‘romantic author’ and the anti-author movement in literary criticism and copyright theory 149

2 The exaggeration of the ‘romantic author-genius’ construct 156

3 The source of the ‘romantic author’ criticism - what Barthes and Foucault actually said： ‘death of the author’？ 166

4 Legal concepts of authorship in copyright law and the relevance of postmodernist interpretations of authorship in legal reality 170

5 The implicit favouring of ownership over authorship in ‘anti-author’ conceptions 177

Ⅱ Creativity： the vexing fetish 182

1 Art and author’s creativity and their relationship to copyright： attempts at a description of creativity 182

2 Copyright and creativity： aporetic copyright rules 188

3 Authorship and originality/creativity in relation to restorations： ‘normative’ originality 194

4 The ‘creativity’ rhetoric of the creative industries 196

Ⅲ Conclusion 198

5.The effects of copyright-property Ⅰ： the problem of alienation 201

Ⅰ The legal preconditions for alienation Ⅰ： transfer of copyright 201

1 Assignments and licences 202

2 Works created by employees 208

Ⅱ The legal preconditions for alienation Ⅱ： security rights over copyright 213

Ⅲ The concept of alienation 215

1 Alienation according to Hegel and Marx 216

2 Karl Renner： change of social function behind the immutable legal institution of property and ownership 222

3 Copyright and alienation 225

Ⅳ The weaknesses of a moral rights protection system 237

1 The idea of moral rights： a remedy against alienation？ 237

2 The impact of moral rights on the exercise of economic rights after their transfer 240

Ⅴ Conclusion 244

6.The effects of copyright-property Ⅱ： neo-feudal and neo-colonial features of international copyright protection 247

Ⅰ International copyright as a basis for neo-feudal and neo-colonial trends 247

Ⅱ The powers of copyright-property： property， sovereignty and feudal relations 249

1 Human expressions as property for power： the concept of the ‘product’ in business and marketing 249

2 The exploitation of copyright： employment， alienation and licensing as a kind of new feudal relationship 256

Ⅲ Neo-colonialism with the assistance of copyright 267

1 The classical legal distinction between property and sovereignty， and the reality 267

2 Copyright as a legal device for neo-colonialism 268

Ⅳ Conclusion 272Conclusions 274Bibliography 280

Index 303